Marit Torstensdatter SPARSTAD

1848 - 1934  (86 years)

• Name	Marit Torstensdatter SPARSTAD
  Birth	23 Feb 1848	Vang i Valdres, Oppland Fylke, Norway   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Baptism	2 Apr 1848	Vang i Valdres, Oppland Fylke, Norway   [1]
  Emigration	1866	Vang i Valdres, Oppland Fylke, Norway   [3]
  Immigration	1866	Goodhue County, Minnesota, USA
  Occupation	farmer's wife and then farmer
  Residence	1920	Maynard, Chippewa County, Minnesota, USA   [4]
  Burial	Aug 1934	Wang, Renville County, Minnesota, USA
  Death	19 Aug 1934	Maynard, Chippewa County, Minnesota, USA   [2]
  Notes	She came to Goodhue County, Minnesota in 1866, but when she married in 1870, she settled in Granite Falls. When Henry died, she managed the farm and raised her six young children. In 1917, she moved to Maynard, where she died. In the 1910 U.S. Census for Granite Falls, Chippewa County, Minnesota, she was listed as "Marry", widowed, head of a family that consisted of Marry Ellingboe age 24, Thea Ellingboe age 22, Ivon Ellingboe age 20, and Bertha Ellingboe age 14. Also in the listing was Selver Strand, age 20, who was probably a domestic servant. Her birthplace, and that of her parents, was listed as Norway. Her year of immigration was listed as 1866. [5]
  Person ID	I9102	Ellingboe
  Last Modified	24 Feb 2012

  
  

  Family ID

  F1460

  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Headstones

  Gravestone of Helge and Marit Ellingboe

  
  

• Sources

  [S125] Vang Church Books, (Records found in original books at Hamar State Archives, LDS microfilm, or Digital Archives.), Oppland fylke, Vang, Ministerialbok nr. 6 (1846-1864), F?dte og d?pte 1848, side 10. http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:NBN:no-a1450-kb20070207650613.jpg (Reliability: 3). [S131] Gravestone, Wang Lutheran Cemetery, Wang, Renville, Minnesota, USA (Reliability: 3). [S77] Frøholm, Anders, Vang B, (Valdres Bygdeboks Forlag, 1990), p. 131 (Reliability: 3). [S150] U.S. Federal Census, 1920, Maynard, Chippewa County, Minnesota (Reliability: 3). [S150] U.S. Federal Census, 1910, Granite Falls, Chippewa County, Minnesota (Reliability: 3).